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indeed, that would just give a blank check to the big spenders. they could run for two years. and why is it so important to get a longer debt, bigger debt ceiling increase? and i also thought and believe we have an agreement that the debt ceiling shouldn't be increased more than spending is decreaseed. spending decreased over ten years. you cut $1 trillion, you raise the debt ceiling $1 trillion. we give you ten years on spending cuts, but immediately you get a $1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling. why are we in this fix? this is why. i hate to say it. this is why, there is no doubt about it. the president said last week the only bottom line that i have is that we extend this debt ceiling through the next election until
indeed, that would just give a blank check to the big spenders. they could run for two years. and why is it so important to get a longer debt, bigger debt ceiling increase? and i also thought and believe we have an agreement that the debt ceiling shouldn't be increased more than spending is decreaseed. spending decreased over ten years. you cut $1 trillion, you raise the debt ceiling $1 trillion. we give you ten years on spending cuts, but immediately you get a $1 trillion increase in the debt...
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probably braided with a big headdress wearing a leather outfit in saying how. how many expected to see that?? be truthful.ands a few hands are slowly. han for those who raise their hands and the ones that haven't comens are you disappointed in seeing it away and now? no child moved.the reas the reason i ask is, this is toe we are.wee we are ordinary people. where ordinary clothing. we're not the people you see in oort cartoons and movies. what you might read about and what people might say about us.o we're not these people.. indians, go to school, work. you might have meant a teacher in your school, have ayou principle, not know what cub, c church, a lawyer.thatho this is it we are into we want to be. ret to satisfy himself, he picked up his hand drum and began beating it and stopped. what is the deep remind them of? and a chilonded immediately, heart beat. one place you hear drums is that at powwow. he as to knew what a poway's an. told everyone they had a really good guesses but answer thethe question himself. a celebration where some of us i ang and danced.
probably braided with a big headdress wearing a leather outfit in saying how. how many expected to see that?? be truthful.ands a few hands are slowly. han for those who raise their hands and the ones that haven't comens are you disappointed in seeing it away and now? no child moved.the reas the reason i ask is, this is toe we are.wee we are ordinary people. where ordinary clothing. we're not the people you see in oort cartoons and movies. what you might read about and what people might say...
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, big problem, and it was reported to her, and she tried to get help for it. she wrote to then vice president cheney to say we need help. she tried to get the fbi in, and the reaction was pretty much what happens in other communities i think when your own is attacked. they attack back. she got a public service officer to testify it was going on, but instead of solving the problem, they got rid of her. that's why she was impeached. she's very bitter, and oddly enough, maybe not so oddly, but when this is your whole home and you live on a reservation and this is your entire place of identity, there's nowhere else really you can go unless you make a clean break so she has to live with these people who impeached her, and it's very difficult. she's an unhappy person. this is one of those tribal governments that the federal government put in place itself in the 20th century, and had it been another century, they wouldn't have this same kind of government they have now that allowed all of this so she, yeah, it's an unhappy story. that's for sure. >> well, why don't i
, big problem, and it was reported to her, and she tried to get help for it. she wrote to then vice president cheney to say we need help. she tried to get the fbi in, and the reaction was pretty much what happens in other communities i think when your own is attacked. they attack back. she got a public service officer to testify it was going on, but instead of solving the problem, they got rid of her. that's why she was impeached. she's very bitter, and oddly enough, maybe not so oddly, but...
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that was also a big factor, a big wake-up call. but, i mean, certain things that i don't think they are the mysterious. you have to be eternally vigilant about new platforms coming down the pipe. if you think about this book and twitter, both of those could have been created earlier. used to be a thing called my space not that long ago. >> i was on it. >> you work. >> for like three weeks. when a new platform comes along and devolves more rapidly you can be obsolete quickly. you have to be incredibly vigilant, hire the best people. we didn't move microsoft a silicon valley because bill said everybody changes jobs in 18 months. that was a 1977. still true. so we said, yeah. seattle. rain. i want to go outside. anyway and of course our families were there. sorry. so great people. and then there is this blind spot. the forms of were potentially obsoletes dual an apple didn't release the social network stuff coming like it has. >> of course you know apple tried to launch a bang. and not sure where it is gone, but clearly a little too l
that was also a big factor, a big wake-up call. but, i mean, certain things that i don't think they are the mysterious. you have to be eternally vigilant about new platforms coming down the pipe. if you think about this book and twitter, both of those could have been created earlier. used to be a thing called my space not that long ago. >> i was on it. >> you work. >> for like three weeks. when a new platform comes along and devolves more rapidly you can be obsolete quickly....
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those big banners you read, those are the short-term planners in the business world. we debate today, and i think we are a lot closer than maybe the media likes to portray, but it is a difference between the next six months do we deal with this issue and have another debt limit vote in six months from now and another six months later and six months, or do we plan for the long term, get our economy more stable, more certain so businesses can invest and do the right thing? as i said at the beginning here, any business that you see that has a short-term plan usually has a sign that says "going out of business" or "quitting." we're not going to quit here. we're going to have a long-term plan. i heard earlier today my colleague and friend from the other side who practices in real estate, from georgia, senator isakson -- both of us have been in the real estate business for many years. as he said also, we're closer than people think we are, but we have some slight differences, ones that we need to make sure we resolve and move to a long-term plan. i challenged earlier this w
those big banners you read, those are the short-term planners in the business world. we debate today, and i think we are a lot closer than maybe the media likes to portray, but it is a difference between the next six months do we deal with this issue and have another debt limit vote in six months from now and another six months later and six months, or do we plan for the long term, get our economy more stable, more certain so businesses can invest and do the right thing? as i said at the...
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t we did too big surveys of these folks. what i found fascinating as if began to look through theegan results of the service, the t difference in how people were how pe responding to questions aboutop opportunity and access as anitya function of age or asra generations. would go into this a little bit later, but a short story is s those people who were under 40 and you have a system that i have organized where i call these people generations, the people under 40 responded quitei differently to those who were over 40 in terms of how muchm discrimination date received in the workplace and how much ofp today's date of were available for them personally. just in terms of how difficult it was to make it in americanci, society. and so once i saw this interesting generational break out in the data we went back w ahead of a small group ofarchers researchers and conducted overdu 130 follow-up interviews just in the people in the survey in addition to over 100 interviewst conducted generally from the book.t so it was somewhat differen
t we did too big surveys of these folks. what i found fascinating as if began to look through theegan results of the service, the t difference in how people were how pe responding to questions aboutop opportunity and access as anitya function of age or asra generations. would go into this a little bit later, but a short story is s those people who were under 40 and you have a system that i have organized where i call these people generations, the people under 40 responded quitei differently to...
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so i had this big battle about whether i was going to do the english assignment, and i remember saying to her in the midst of this heated discussion i didn't see the point during these assignments. they were a waste of time. i didn't see what to do this stuff and she said to me well, okay, you are obviously a bright kid and what you decide to do is find so what are we going to do here? and i said well, it seems to me that the point of this class is one, to make sure i have an understanding of the english language and research skills and i can make a coherent argument, so why don't you testing on that? she said why don't you mean? i said have me write something. she said fine, what are you going to write? i said why not a history of riots in america. she said okay. and i went off and several weeks later come back with i don't know how long it was that like a 140 page manuscript and she takes it home, comes back the next monday and this is okay i'm going to give you an essay for the course, but i don't -- i'm not really capable of evaluating this material and i make it from the project.
so i had this big battle about whether i was going to do the english assignment, and i remember saying to her in the midst of this heated discussion i didn't see the point during these assignments. they were a waste of time. i didn't see what to do this stuff and she said to me well, okay, you are obviously a bright kid and what you decide to do is find so what are we going to do here? and i said well, it seems to me that the point of this class is one, to make sure i have an understanding of...
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i believe that only happened because it became a big controversial issue. so many people were thinking about it, they had to clarify their own values and, by golly, they came out to the polls. i'm saying this to you because i think arizona politic could use a little more of that kind of attention right now. [applause] some say the chaos. when things are chaotic, it always feels like you just want to pull in and go hide. but the thing truth is when -- the truth is when things are in chaos, that's when you can make the change you want to make. a good example is when the financial meltdown began. what if lehman brothers had been lehman brothers and sisters? [laughter] yeah, suddenly we can see thing differently, and we can see there may be alternative solutions. wear the shirt. this became a metaphor for me when i was here with planned parenthood in arizona, and we had a very small clinic in casa grande. i was visiting with the staff there one day, and one of the young women said to me -- she had on her planned parenthood shirt that the staff all wore in the h
i believe that only happened because it became a big controversial issue. so many people were thinking about it, they had to clarify their own values and, by golly, they came out to the polls. i'm saying this to you because i think arizona politic could use a little more of that kind of attention right now. [applause] some say the chaos. when things are chaotic, it always feels like you just want to pull in and go hide. but the thing truth is when -- the truth is when things are in chaos,...
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you have to put the big items, the big-ticket items on the table. that means fixing social security, reforming it for the long term, medicare, medicaid, unsustainable on the current paths. defense, we've got to find a handle on some of the procurement and expenditures. but we also -- and i think the senator joined in this -- have to close some tax loopholes and have tax reform and find some level of revenue at an appropriate ratio that allows us to fix this. and that's where the problem has been, that there are a group of folks over in the house who have just insisted no revenue at all. and what i'd ask the senator, isn't it fair to say that the gang of six came up with a sort of more balanced approach on which i believe the senate could find the ground of compromise? what senator reid has proposed i believe has cuts that republicans have supported. maybe not quite enough yet so maybe we can negotiate that. mr. coburn: let me reclaim my time. mr. kerry: absolutely. mr. coburn: there are absolutely no cuts in either what senator reid or speaker boehn
you have to put the big items, the big-ticket items on the table. that means fixing social security, reforming it for the long term, medicare, medicaid, unsustainable on the current paths. defense, we've got to find a handle on some of the procurement and expenditures. but we also -- and i think the senator joined in this -- have to close some tax loopholes and have tax reform and find some level of revenue at an appropriate ratio that allows us to fix this. and that's where the problem has...
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>> dodd-frank in my view really missed the big one which is too big to fail. it did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that's the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing is, i think, it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulator, and so therefore providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry so they got their first chance when they were talking about the legislation, writing the legislation, got their first chance to manipulate, and now they can manipulate the regulators. >> is it better than nothing in >> there's parts that are fine and good, but i think a 3,000-page law, okay, glass was 32 pages, 3,000 pages, you know, it's way overdone and not effective on the crucial issue of too big to fail. >> yeah, and not to take much longer on that, i think i agree with gretchen. why not add one paragraph that essentially said any institution that has to rely on extraordinary government asset purchases, debt guarantees more than 60 day at the windows has senior office
>> dodd-frank in my view really missed the big one which is too big to fail. it did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that's the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing is, i think, it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulator, and so therefore providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry so they got their first chance when they were talking about the legislation, writing the...
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it is a big democratic district. you won with 51% one the top of your ticket got blown out of your county by 20 points. you can't be on the judiciary committee. last thing you need is being on tv every day fighting with barney frank and maxine waters over guns and abortion. you need to get on the commerce committee. i went and saw chairman hyde and he invited me to join the committee and i am flattered but the answer is no. have to get on the commerce committee. i will deal with you on the vote. i am a social conservative but i don't need to get into the infighting. the next year henry kept coming and approaching me saying you are the guy i want on the committee. i would love to have you and for the same year i kept rebuffing him a nice way and for the end of my first year in congress, he said you are a member of -- you have got most of those hollywood movie studios in your district, the entertainment industry. their lifeblood is intellectual property and protecting intellectual property. he says we have an intellect
it is a big democratic district. you won with 51% one the top of your ticket got blown out of your county by 20 points. you can't be on the judiciary committee. last thing you need is being on tv every day fighting with barney frank and maxine waters over guns and abortion. you need to get on the commerce committee. i went and saw chairman hyde and he invited me to join the committee and i am flattered but the answer is no. have to get on the commerce committee. i will deal with you on the...
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>> it was a big first. there were a lot of unique features and shopping centers built on such a grand scale with so much attention to aesthetic detail and really just imposing architecture. it was important to the northwest suburbs that the condition of the fact that this area was a boom town. just growing so rapidly and one of the more important areas of chicago at that time. the case i make in the book is it represented a lot of firsts in shopping center buildings. it is meant to be a case study to talk about all shopping centers and all malls and how they developed. the best analogy is it was the floodgate. >> victor bruin has been referred to as the father of the shopping mall. what features or design elements were considered unique at the time of the construction? >> victor drew in was an amazing story. there is a biography of him where i obtained my permission called lawmaker. he was a holocaust refugee who came from vienna in 1939 to america and one of the things that influenced him the most on his a
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you see the big picture. we use it more in the future but you are on the cutting edge of doing that. also, you did not know if you were going to see your purchase paper you trained for this sander there, but fell whole thing what do we do with the women in our unit? >> talk about that. it is the theme going through the book. >> guest: i joined the marine corps during peacetime to the understanding i would never really go to combat from the recruiters you will take the oath that honestly you will be sent to the work unit. >> but i took that seriously thinking if i do have to go to combat, i will do my duty. so in november 20,002,000,000 it started to come up with the idea we would go to iraq. my commanding officer pulls the two female officers and says look, by order of congress you are not allowed to go with us to combat because we will push ahead of the infantry and doing untraditional operations putting us ahead of a ground forces. i will fight to get you to kuwait i have told headquarters of the 13 that ar
you see the big picture. we use it more in the future but you are on the cutting edge of doing that. also, you did not know if you were going to see your purchase paper you trained for this sander there, but fell whole thing what do we do with the women in our unit? >> talk about that. it is the theme going through the book. >> guest: i joined the marine corps during peacetime to the understanding i would never really go to combat from the recruiters you will take the oath that...
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there's a big difference on top of that between the two comparing apples and oranges. fannie and freddie our government guarantee. they own the credit for us already. bank of america the likelihood is your contractors mortgages not even held by bank of america. it's held by mortgage-backed and those investors have to be considered. bank of america is a surface or who also owns the largest portfolio of second liens and home-equity lines and so there's risks to them on that depending with the door on the first mortgage and so you're right that this is a problematic situation and the government isn't interested in dealing with it but one of the things they are not willing to deal with is before you can have in the example bank of america treat the borrowers well, they need to be armed conflict in the relationship between the second liens they hold on the balance sheet and first liens have a service for people like the contractor. >> thank you. >> i have a couple questions. right now what looks like fannie and freddie might be profitable by the industry to of going into 20
there's a big difference on top of that between the two comparing apples and oranges. fannie and freddie our government guarantee. they own the credit for us already. bank of america the likelihood is your contractors mortgages not even held by bank of america. it's held by mortgage-backed and those investors have to be considered. bank of america is a surface or who also owns the largest portfolio of second liens and home-equity lines and so there's risks to them on that depending with the...
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meier paris wordpro with big readers. there were not sitting around the gain existentialist. i used to save my dad read by the pound. my mother love true crime would always be embarrassing riding the train reserve it is like the i 95 killer on the front cover there is a pitcher of 70 stabbing somebody but i was lucky. i ran into a friend from high school who said whenever i went over to your house your parents would be sitting in the living room reading no tv or radio and i thought that was so weird. [laughter] now he has kids of his own he could appreciate that was a good atmosphere to grow up and fostered by the above books. went to college at the university of philadelphia and graduated 1988 with the degree of folklore. any other folklore majors here today? [laughter] angling through the other occupations i have had i have chosen many non lucrative occupations including writings and non best-selling book but that one especially i remember looking at the want ads every sunday. it would have between forests and forklift operator. but i move to seattle and drifted into public
meier paris wordpro with big readers. there were not sitting around the gain existentialist. i used to save my dad read by the pound. my mother love true crime would always be embarrassing riding the train reserve it is like the i 95 killer on the front cover there is a pitcher of 70 stabbing somebody but i was lucky. i ran into a friend from high school who said whenever i went over to your house your parents would be sitting in the living room reading no tv or radio and i thought that was so...
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the big one, the big bad ones and big good ones are in the book. >> host: what would you consider your biggest success? dreamworks? >> guest: the hollywood mentality. microsoft just to give you an example, if we made a mistake or mist a trend we would flagellate ourselves. how will we catch up? and hollywood -- not that great and the box office was horrible. we have another movie coming out. it is not the post analysis -- a healthy post analysis like you have been good technology companies. i was a fish out of water in that world. i tried to contribute a few things. one of the few things i talk about in the book. this was the level of defect i had. when you walk the ground doesn't deform. there is no dust. and something is wrong. but you don't know what it is. they say we will fix it and it will cost $1 million. that is the kind -- >> host: was it $1 million? >> guest: i think so. so i made some documentary films that we talked about earlier. one on global health and one on evolution. i am proud of our documentary work. they are philanthropic endeavors. >> host: what is your best inves
the big one, the big bad ones and big good ones are in the book. >> host: what would you consider your biggest success? dreamworks? >> guest: the hollywood mentality. microsoft just to give you an example, if we made a mistake or mist a trend we would flagellate ourselves. how will we catch up? and hollywood -- not that great and the box office was horrible. we have another movie coming out. it is not the post analysis -- a healthy post analysis like you have been good technology...
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we pack up to come to washington on this big train trip. as you can imagine, a big chip for us. my mother's mother was going as well. we are getting ready and coming down the big kill. pretty steep, not very long. my grandmother trips and broke her arm. broken leg. her leg. broker leg. my sister had to get someone to push around the entire time. luckily there was no problem with that. grandmother got on the train. the whole way here. we kept our family vacation intact. what i remember, and the reason i'm telling the story, if you can imagine a girl from carrollton georgia riding the train up, going into the dining car in the morning, sitting around what appear to be a very elegant table at that time in a little flour and looking out of the window and seeing, as you cross the bridge, the potomac, the washington monument. the feeling that i had knowing that i just entered our nation's capitol. later i learned, as i'm sure many of you know, that on the top of the washington monument is the capstone. on the capstone on each side it says praise be to god. as the sun rises over washin
we pack up to come to washington on this big train trip. as you can imagine, a big chip for us. my mother's mother was going as well. we are getting ready and coming down the big kill. pretty steep, not very long. my grandmother trips and broke her arm. broken leg. her leg. broker leg. my sister had to get someone to push around the entire time. luckily there was no problem with that. grandmother got on the train. the whole way here. we kept our family vacation intact. what i remember, and the...
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so we had an election and it was a sha shellacking for the big spenders. wasn't that what it was all about? was there a single candidate that i know of that won last time -- at least new candidate that got elected for the first time -- that didn't talk about the need to constrain spending in washington? that was the theme throughout the election. that was the meaning of the election. so now my colleagues, oh, we can't -- oh, you want to cut spending? oh, they've got these extremists in the house. oh, they don't want to play ba ball. they hadn't served in the congress long enough. they don't know better. they think we can actually cut spending. of course we can't cut spending. oh, that's not the way you do it. you just reduce growth a little bit in spending and save you're cutting spending, even though it's still going up. that's the way -- that's what's been going on here. that's why we are increasing the debt at the most extraordinary rate in over a systemic period of time to a degree that every economist that's appeared before the budget committee -- i'm
so we had an election and it was a sha shellacking for the big spenders. wasn't that what it was all about? was there a single candidate that i know of that won last time -- at least new candidate that got elected for the first time -- that didn't talk about the need to constrain spending in washington? that was the theme throughout the election. that was the meaning of the election. so now my colleagues, oh, we can't -- oh, you want to cut spending? oh, they've got these extremists in the...
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>> guest: is a big first there's a lot of unique figures. they have not seen so message both 10 so much attention to detail and imposing architecture. it was very important to the northwest suburbs that the area was a boom town growing so rapidly one of the more important areas of chicago at that time. the case and make in the book is it represented a lot of first with shopping center building what we think of most a day and is to be a case study to talk about all shopping centers and the mall and how they developed. of the best analogy is open the floodgate. >> victor is referred to as the father of a shopping mall. what design elements were considered unique at the time of the construction? >> victor was an amazing story there is a wonderful biography were i obtained most of my information and a holocaust refugee coming to america and said one of the things that influenced him the the most one central park and broadway and the juxtaposition about things that one was used by the public free of charge and the other was used by the public as
>> guest: is a big first there's a lot of unique figures. they have not seen so message both 10 so much attention to detail and imposing architecture. it was very important to the northwest suburbs that the area was a boom town growing so rapidly one of the more important areas of chicago at that time. the case and make in the book is it represented a lot of first with shopping center building what we think of most a day and is to be a case study to talk about all shopping centers and the...
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this is a big difference between jerry falwell and jimmy carter. jimmy carter never believed if you necessarily change the law that he would necessarily have the results of a reteamed country. in fact, jimmy carter felt very awkward about making the argument that america was somehow the chosen people of god. jerry falwell was very willing to do that. sherry fowler clearly conflated the american nation with christianity. jimmy carter was always very hesitant, such as in the moralizer, very hesitant to god's purpose with america's purpose. after the i love america rally, no surprise again we get the formation of the moral majority and we get the rise of what is known as the new right during the period. and many of the members of a new right also were very sure that jimmy carter was quite vulnerable on a bunch of cultural issues, which is some ways didn't prove to be afraid if they wanted it to, but they had a point. none of this would matter. sure to falwell's opposition, none of this anonymous there was a candidate they are ready to articulate the c
this is a big difference between jerry falwell and jimmy carter. jimmy carter never believed if you necessarily change the law that he would necessarily have the results of a reteamed country. in fact, jimmy carter felt very awkward about making the argument that america was somehow the chosen people of god. jerry falwell was very willing to do that. sherry fowler clearly conflated the american nation with christianity. jimmy carter was always very hesitant, such as in the moralizer, very...
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the the big dreams. but to the immediate future they still had problems. they had written on the north, canada, and spain was still on the south. so, everything was a little tricky. but they had the vision of the convention taking over the whole continent, and more than the continent. mexico, cuba. some of them jefferson fought cuba will naturally fall to less like ripe fruit. i don't know what he thought would happen to all the spanish. yes, sir. >> it never occurred to me that you mentioned the delay of american recognition of the soviet union. but since you did, i'm wondering is at this conventional wisdom a little bit mistaken? because i always thought of the attitude in berlin in 1933 with whom we did have relationships with hitler's germany, but she held the government of that period as a group of psychopaths and gangsters who came to power by illegitimate means. and so one could say the same about linen's seizure of power. so was this really backcourt on our part or was there some fundamental legi
the the big dreams. but to the immediate future they still had problems. they had written on the north, canada, and spain was still on the south. so, everything was a little tricky. but they had the vision of the convention taking over the whole continent, and more than the continent. mexico, cuba. some of them jefferson fought cuba will naturally fall to less like ripe fruit. i don't know what he thought would happen to all the spanish. yes, sir. >> it never occurred to me that you...
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to afford but also too big to change politically. this is how a aaa country becomes aa, the first step on the march to greece." end of quotation. charles congratulat krauthammerl observer of the political scene, in his column friday in "the washington post" concluded with the following words: "obama faces two massive problems: jobs and debt. they're both the result of his spectacularly failed keynesian gamble, spendin spending that la stagnant economy with high and chronic unemployment and a stag staggering debt burden." and that's the problem, mr. president. a staggering debt burden that requires us to increase our debt ceiling and republicans are saying, in order to stop this cycle of more promises and more spending, we've got to apply some accountability, some common sense and good judgment, and that means, first and foremost, stop the spending. i would note, as i said before, that under president obama, annual spending has gone up by $1.2 trillion each of the years. the deficit by peds 1.4 trillion. and i ask again, do you notice
to afford but also too big to change politically. this is how a aaa country becomes aa, the first step on the march to greece." end of quotation. charles congratulat krauthammerl observer of the political scene, in his column friday in "the washington post" concluded with the following words: "obama faces two massive problems: jobs and debt. they're both the result of his spectacularly failed keynesian gamble, spendin spending that la stagnant economy with high and chronic...
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it was a big trip for us. my mother's mother was going as well. we're getting ready and we're coming down the big hill on our little house. it's pretty steep, not very long and my grandmother tripped and broke her leg. she broke her leg. ackermann because my sister had to push her around washington the entire tactic likely she was 16. grandma got on the train, she rode the train the hallway here and we kept our family vacation in debt. the reason i'm telling the story is if you can imagine a little rural girl from carrollton, georgia, riding the train up, going into the dining car in the morning, sitting down at what appeared to be a very elegant table, and looking out of the window and seeing as you cross the bridge of natoma, washington monument. and feeling that i had known that i just entered our nations capital. later i learned as i'm sure many of you know, that on the top of the washington monument is the capstone. on the capstone it says praise be to god. as the sun rises over washington every day the first light of the sun strikes the word
it was a big trip for us. my mother's mother was going as well. we're getting ready and we're coming down the big hill on our little house. it's pretty steep, not very long and my grandmother tripped and broke her leg. she broke her leg. ackermann because my sister had to push her around washington the entire tactic likely she was 16. grandma got on the train, she rode the train the hallway here and we kept our family vacation in debt. the reason i'm telling the story is if you can imagine a...
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i mean it seems to me that is such a big issue. getting our kids just through high school and into college. i work for a foundation in d.c. called pozzi and i think we are are -- to be our executive director and what they do is they work to get disadvantaged kids into college. so how do we address our failing public school system especially when it comes to black kids? >> whoa, that is big. >> first of all, thank you for your remark and of course tomorrow lawson is the new d.c. coordinator of the foundation in d.c.. i'm so proud of her and she is my baby girl. she is really coretta's baby girl but i borrow her from time to time. we are excited about her. >> she was hired in a nanosecond. it was like m, calm. but we are excited about that and i'm excited about the image that the foundation has which is really about changing the metrics around college attendance. here is what we have to do you all. whoever is in in the -- within the sound of my voice, going to college is not warring. it is not nerdy. it is not white folk. eight is ho
i mean it seems to me that is such a big issue. getting our kids just through high school and into college. i work for a foundation in d.c. called pozzi and i think we are are -- to be our executive director and what they do is they work to get disadvantaged kids into college. so how do we address our failing public school system especially when it comes to black kids? >> whoa, that is big. >> first of all, thank you for your remark and of course tomorrow lawson is the new d.c....
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it was a big thing. again, lots of advantages. it's cool to have interlibrary loans the way you couldn't with an old library card, but this is an old thought. for us the challenge is how do we surprise people when they are going to buy books? that is something we have to solve or the market is going to be narrow, narrow, narrow for the same things we talk about. the one last example is the long tail argument. because of inventory, you know, everything can be found. there's truth to that, but in the movie business ten years ago, they thought that would lead to independent films, but it's been the opposite. you have the big comedies, the independent film market has effectively died in america. i don't think it's an era where people find everything. in fact, there's great tendency for the big block buster stuff to be stronger and stronger and stronger. we look for help in how to break that and small bookstores are a way, but not the only way, and there's issues there too. >> thanks, geoff. >> next panelist is from a bookstore, he's f
it was a big thing. again, lots of advantages. it's cool to have interlibrary loans the way you couldn't with an old library card, but this is an old thought. for us the challenge is how do we surprise people when they are going to buy books? that is something we have to solve or the market is going to be narrow, narrow, narrow for the same things we talk about. the one last example is the long tail argument. because of inventory, you know, everything can be found. there's truth to that, but in...
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and although i've seen her once before, the big time i saw her was when i had the first tech writing accident in the my back and was unconscious for a while. as a kid, for chile part of overcoming out with not believing the doctors and a side you should be glad you can walk. you are lucky you weren't dead. oh yeah, sure, but i wanted to do more. we kept going. finally had to go to the chiropractor to find somebody that said maybe exercise is okay. maybe you can try jogging. yeah, maybe you could use that to strength in your back. i latched onto god and that is when i got into dance team chemistry living in the which an escape --a physical escape. i felt great. i got my body back. and then just as you start to feel good, life has a tendency sometimes to thought you back down. it is happening to me. i had some fun times, cheerleading, i'm sure there's not a lot of people out there i would even admit that they were trying to clean if they [laughter] while to us. and you know what, i would have rather two minute track here. i thought a tractor queen is good. i'm queen of the track truce.
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by point devastates the premises of the court planned in in the next day there was a cartoon with a big target saying bull's-eye >> becomes big. >> and then points to that political sophistication his accuser was no slouch rose about, is the agreement of two other justices of the brandeis and then suggested came about so quickly it did not have time to consult but clearly you can see we speak for the entire court which was not true at all but it was very effective. >> host: does the of plan ever actually die? what happens next? >> having a series of near-death experiences. >> sort i'd like health care [laughter] >> with a different ending. [laughter] but it is very easy to look back to see this as doomed to from day one am previous accounts suggest it was doomed from the day that he unleashed the plan. i think that's is not right to. one of the things it is remarkable is the enormous power that roosevelt had the power of persuasion and also to the strength of his argument is when he launches the plan and shocksó of betty there is all of this opposition and the congress with the gallup
by point devastates the premises of the court planned in in the next day there was a cartoon with a big target saying bull's-eye >> becomes big. >> and then points to that political sophistication his accuser was no slouch rose about, is the agreement of two other justices of the brandeis and then suggested came about so quickly it did not have time to consult but clearly you can see we speak for the entire court which was not true at all but it was very effective. >> host:...
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it was a very big deal to them. it helped them win the six-day war. but what didn't make the news was that after they were done with it, they made a deal with the cia to bring his mig to area 51. and td barnes was on the team that reverse engineered that in the mig. they took it down to its nuts and bolts and look at it to figure out what made it fly. and at the time we are engaged in the vietnam war, and our pilot over there were getting shot down in this terrible racial of nine to one. we were losing against the mig. the soviets were supplying the north vietnamese with the mig. and so there was a halt on the dogfight over vietnam wall the engineers worked on the transit out there at area 51. and after they reverse engineered it, that was called the tactical face. then they begin those called the tactical face. so they put the mig back together and they began flying it and dogfights, mock dogfights in the skies over at area 51, to figure out how to beat the mig in air to air combat. and what is not known until now, or kind of known only to the men wh
it was a very big deal to them. it helped them win the six-day war. but what didn't make the news was that after they were done with it, they made a deal with the cia to bring his mig to area 51. and td barnes was on the team that reverse engineered that in the mig. they took it down to its nuts and bolts and look at it to figure out what made it fly. and at the time we are engaged in the vietnam war, and our pilot over there were getting shot down in this terrible racial of nine to one. we...
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[laughter] >> and i'll stop there because that was my big step. on being able to stand in front of a group dripping wet, no makeup and what makeup was there was sliding down my face and pulling it doting. and having the electricity go out this morning at 2:00 it's nothing compared to what i've been through in the past. [laughter] >> as miss oklahoma, suddenly you're thrust into the spotlight not only as a representative of the state but as we all know a lot of times with native people, once we're put in the spotlight we're suddenly asked to represent all native people. how did you balance that? i mean, how did you become an advocate for native people but without, you know, taking on that representative of the whole? >> well, i think mainly because i probably never felt really normal. and so i never -- well, really, if you read the book and see how i grew up, it's hard to think of myself being normal. so it's really -- i can't speak for other people because i'm not normal. so i only speak for myself. [laughter] >> but i did -- there were a lot of p
[laughter] >> and i'll stop there because that was my big step. on being able to stand in front of a group dripping wet, no makeup and what makeup was there was sliding down my face and pulling it doting. and having the electricity go out this morning at 2:00 it's nothing compared to what i've been through in the past. [laughter] >> as miss oklahoma, suddenly you're thrust into the spotlight not only as a representative of the state but as we all know a lot of times with native...
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he hates big government deficits. as long as their in the bush to ministration, and he is terrified it will create sky-high interest rates. he loves deficits now in 1983 and created, the fancy word with the crowd sourcing. the use the internet, blocks to get dozens of like-minded people to participate in a joint project. the project at the time was every time he writes a column all of the members of the troops got stay up all night, fact checking. kids every line, every error, every distortion, every misquotation, e-mail me. i'll have it published on national review online in a state. we did about a hundred columns over seven years. that does major retractions of airs allies. but before it did that it had to resolve a not once but twice getting the new york times for the first time in its more than century long history destitute an official policy under which its opinion columnists are obliged to correct errors. they didn't have that policy. [applause] al let me tell you what is so powerful about that. when they can't
he hates big government deficits. as long as their in the bush to ministration, and he is terrified it will create sky-high interest rates. he loves deficits now in 1983 and created, the fancy word with the crowd sourcing. the use the internet, blocks to get dozens of like-minded people to participate in a joint project. the project at the time was every time he writes a column all of the members of the troops got stay up all night, fact checking. kids every line, every error, every distortion,...
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>> well, um, there were both small and big themes. there were small patterns. three of the seven people were child jockeys. two of the seven individuals, actually, were slaves to confederate forces in fort sumter and the coastal war in the carolinas, they were not confederates, they were slaves to the confederate forces. um, so there were odd little connections to that. but the bigger connection was that even the people who left south carolina and were very glad to escape or survive slavery and otherwise left the state all wrote of their lives as south carolinians, all firmly identified themselves as sort of having a fraught relationship to where they're from. but, oh, they weren't going to let someone take that away from them. they would not identify themselves as africans with the one exception, perhaps, of boston kings who ended up going back to africa. but the rest of them they distinctly wanted to claim themselves as part of history even though they may have left the state. and i think that was the most powerful theme we found from the 18th to the early 20
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we also have a big hub.soma it is pretty well understood a that we are starting to see a migration. whenever words you want to use. the reason that happens is theym understand that with the power vacuum there is opportunity for them. the great thing about a failed state is that it is hard to operate.s no it is a little bit of a double-edged sword. i believe that human is at the center. this one final point. the, the central figures, is really unlike any other that we see.e ader e call it the trifecta. there is among the a formerin guantanamo detainee.rtunately, t people who did not and go backa have a lot of st. croix that they did not have before. you have the americans do a wooden say have rose amazed by have this straw in the west. you have longtime personal aide to osama bin london.- he has that traditional. this is the leaders that we don't see anywhere else withinno these franchises in the world. >> host: joining us from jackson, tennessee. independent line. >> our you doing? >> good morning. this is a quote from james madison. a standing military force with an hour run execut
we also have a big hub.soma it is pretty well understood a that we are starting to see a migration. whenever words you want to use. the reason that happens is theym understand that with the power vacuum there is opportunity for them. the great thing about a failed state is that it is hard to operate.s no it is a little bit of a double-edged sword. i believe that human is at the center. this one final point. the, the central figures, is really unlike any other that we see.e ader e call it the...
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complex of building, helping, developing projects that's going on that really are designed to be one big branch stray teemingic thing wherever you look in the middle east, and that is to shore up the strength, the responsiveness of the state wherever they look, whether with iraq or iraq today or afghanistan to prevent pakistan from continuing to sell the idea of a two-state solution for israel and palestine are all within the concept of the international space system. that is, we don't have strong systems and things are going in the wrong direction. >> host: what i see on the ground when i travel often to afghanistan is to be honest with all the power of the u.s. military, we have an up credibly well-led military, but in the end that's not enough to substitute for the poor government there is and the institutions provide, and it's like, you know, we're pushing this rock uphill and we just never quite get there. i'm sure you wouldn't disagree and it's hard to find anybody to defend president karzai's government. >> guest: that's true too. it brings us back to democratization and that proc
complex of building, helping, developing projects that's going on that really are designed to be one big branch stray teemingic thing wherever you look in the middle east, and that is to shore up the strength, the responsiveness of the state wherever they look, whether with iraq or iraq today or afghanistan to prevent pakistan from continuing to sell the idea of a two-state solution for israel and palestine are all within the concept of the international space system. that is, we don't have...
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[applause] >> i know there's a big debate. we frequently at the smithsonian get letters from people telling us either we are totally right or totally wrong, and we never say anything about it so whether george washington said so help me god, and, you know, how many people were close enough to hear at the time and have you got a record from them? >> to be clear the constitution does not include it. that language is not in the constitution, and george washington almost certainly did not say so help me god, no only is there no evidence, but there's a minister who is present and writing about the inauguration and later becomes washington's great christian defender, arguing what a great christian washington is. if anybody was going to say washington said this, this person would have said this, and he doesn't. he almost certainly didn't say it. oath on the bible, absolutely, that's been since 12 century centuries land, but what the -- england, but what the change is is that you don't have to. you know, i don't have a problem taking
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they got a big sandwich of nothing. they won't be there in the same numbers at all. i have this theory that the night obama won the election in 2008 was the night he appeared with rick warren who put his arms around him and said i don't agree with everything he says but he is all right. if you look at the numbers in 2008 what changed was the republicans stayed home because they didn't think he was the antichrist. now they think he is the antichrist again so they will turn out and it is not clear that obama's base will turn out and will be a much tougher election which is why all the more crazy people like ralph nader and alexander cockburn are advocating for somebody to challenge him as an independent or with the democratic party. that is how incumbents lose. they lose because they are challenged from within. that is how jimmy carter was challenged by ted kennedy and lyndon johnson was challenged and beaten. the easiest way to lose an incumbent president the is to fight 2001. even if i disagree with obama and thought he was terrible i would be against challenging him
they got a big sandwich of nothing. they won't be there in the same numbers at all. i have this theory that the night obama won the election in 2008 was the night he appeared with rick warren who put his arms around him and said i don't agree with everything he says but he is all right. if you look at the numbers in 2008 what changed was the republicans stayed home because they didn't think he was the antichrist. now they think he is the antichrist again so they will turn out and it is not...
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and one night they put a great big screen up out there. and there's no electricity, but they get a way to get some electricity out there. and they've got a projector. and they project up on the screen, a news special on panning for gold in california. and the idea is, guys will see it up on the screen, and they'll all head for california and get out of, get out of the hair of the people in washington. but there's no trouble, everything is going pretty well. and low and behold, they do get enough votes to get this bill out of committee. and it does go onto the house floor. and it passes the house. vote is for getting them the bonus. hoover has said, president hoover has said he will veto it. but it has passed the house. these guys pulled off a miracle in their lobbying. and now the next question is, what's going to happen with the senate. finally it goes to the senate, and on june 16, they started pulling here in may. but june 16, it goes to the senate. and they know it's going to be a tight vote. there are upwards of 10,000 men, women, chi
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there was a big part of his persona. he wrote poetry. he was always described in personal dealings with him as generally considered far from as screen. not a pleasant person. is not a pleasant person to be a round ball. much more rigid, much more didactic. mind you, we're talking about the characters, somebody who planned to 9/11. that didn't want to push that went too far. in portraying osama bin laden it was important to get him right in see him as his acolyte who is going to put his life on the line for this plot would see him as an inspirational figure. that only makes sense because you're not seeing him when you are the reader. you aren't seeing him through the americans what do you been seeing it to the point of view of someone who is actually experiencing and has been inspired by him. you want to understand how that could possibly be. >> one of the things your characters from the west german least seven common is that they are having to use different identities. he has to change its name. the characters are having to impose differ
there was a big part of his persona. he wrote poetry. he was always described in personal dealings with him as generally considered far from as screen. not a pleasant person. is not a pleasant person to be a round ball. much more rigid, much more didactic. mind you, we're talking about the characters, somebody who planned to 9/11. that didn't want to push that went too far. in portraying osama bin laden it was important to get him right in see him as his acolyte who is going to put his life on...
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no big deal. ask the folks in florida, ask the folks in new orleans. ask the folks in gulfport, biloxi, people in california where the fires completely wiped out their homes. ask the people at ground zero. how long are you ready? i don't want y'all to become sicko like me and think about it all the time. my challenge to is this: think about the risk wherever you live and work. how prepared are you to deal with that risk? it doesn't have to be -- i know in washington the first thought is the biggest risk is terrorists. how many were here on 9/11? i wasn't. i heard the stories from people trying to get from their area just to get across the bridges. trying to get to mcclane. you didn't have to be at 9/11. it could have been a dirty bomb, some guy at 495 that has driven too long and taking out a substation. and the black out in '03 or '04 where it was a squirrel that took it out. all it has to be. everything thinks that, though fema, which owns no planes, trains, or automobiles, that the dhs will be there in a new york minute. there are 300 plus million p
no big deal. ask the folks in florida, ask the folks in new orleans. ask the folks in gulfport, biloxi, people in california where the fires completely wiped out their homes. ask the people at ground zero. how long are you ready? i don't want y'all to become sicko like me and think about it all the time. my challenge to is this: think about the risk wherever you live and work. how prepared are you to deal with that risk? it doesn't have to be -- i know in washington the first thought is the...
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no big deal. folks in florida, folks in new orleans, folks in biloxi, the fires completely wiped out their homes. ask the people at ground zero. how long now your ready? qaeda one you all to become sick and think about it all the time, but my challenge to you is this. think about the risk wherever you live, or every worker and how prepared you are to deal with that risk? i know in washington the first spot is the biggest risk is a terrorist incident. how many of you were here on september 11? how was it, but i heard the stories about people trying to get from this area across the bridges. some people trying to get to the plane and it's taking them eight or ten hours. he didn't have to be september 11th. dirty bomb, some guy that has just given away too long and takes out a substation. happens to be just the right substation. a blackout in of three your four. it was a squirrel or something that took it out. all it has to be. everybody thinks about that, fema which owns no planes, trains or automobi
no big deal. folks in florida, folks in new orleans, folks in biloxi, the fires completely wiped out their homes. ask the people at ground zero. how long now your ready? qaeda one you all to become sick and think about it all the time, but my challenge to you is this. think about the risk wherever you live, or every worker and how prepared you are to deal with that risk? i know in washington the first spot is the biggest risk is a terrorist incident. how many of you were here on september 11?...
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and said it's like all doctors, he had a big deal and wanted everybody to know. the saturday evening post was the most popular periodical in the country. i was the place to brag. he also did it to vindicate efforts, as i said. the cap came out, it did indicate evers 24 years after the fact. he was glad that finally edwards reputation as a truthful correspondent was vindicated. it was very big news among media people had always wondered about this account that entered said written many years before. words was still among the living at the time and was very gratified by this and send keen a letter of praise. edwards should be much better remembered that he is, not just for this, but his other work in journalism, one of the early -- he worked with jacob riis, who, of course, how the other half lives. an early supporter of stephen crane. let him stay at his apartment when crane was struggling to write red badge of courage. one of the things that happened to edwards, his house was burned down in 1908. burned to the ground. he lost a lifetime of correspondence and clip
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apple wuss big, then it -- was big, then it went away for a while, then it was back again. so it should be obvious that the 1980s is back, and for various reasons i argue in the book, it is back. and i don't think it's just because of the nostalgia factor although that's certainly a factor. also there's some coincidences. i had mentioned on my radio show a couple days ago that the weird coincidence, although you may see it not just as a coincidence, that 25 years ago almost to the exact week and, certainly, to the exact month the united states military was bombing libya, and the world was wrapped with the detention about a nuclear meltdown at chernobyl. those two things happened almost exactly 25 years ago to the month. so as much of this is pop culture, some of it is very, very real. and what i argue in the book is that the popular culture of the 1980s, the iconography of the 1980s in many ways has inspired the way we hook at real world -- look at real world events and how real world, i guess you would call them actors, behave today. so here are just, again, some examples,
apple wuss big, then it -- was big, then it went away for a while, then it was back again. so it should be obvious that the 1980s is back, and for various reasons i argue in the book, it is back. and i don't think it's just because of the nostalgia factor although that's certainly a factor. also there's some coincidences. i had mentioned on my radio show a couple days ago that the weird coincidence, although you may see it not just as a coincidence, that 25 years ago almost to the exact week...
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but inside a big sixitin shouldered man sat by the fire and roosevelts pencil glided across the pad of, i paper because i am certain my fellow americans expect that of their presidency, i will address them with a candor and decision of which the president situation in polls. the fire crackled, the largeith hand with its thick fingers move rapidly across themove paper. the people of the united states wants vigorous action and they have made me thet instrument of temporary humble instrument of their wishes. scratched out than realized there is no time for ability and during the next two days, a frightening reports continue to reach hyde park. peace by piece of the nation's credit structure was becoming paralyzed. crisis was in the air. it was a strange numbing crisis, mistaking suddenly in the western city than in the south. it was worse than the invading army.rywh it was every mariane to know where and endless in the minds of men and it was the year but at hyde park, the next president was serene and cheerful.sid march 1st, the president elect left hyde park from new york and headed for
but inside a big sixitin shouldered man sat by the fire and roosevelts pencil glided across the pad of, i paper because i am certain my fellow americans expect that of their presidency, i will address them with a candor and decision of which the president situation in polls. the fire crackled, the largeith hand with its thick fingers move rapidly across themove paper. the people of the united states wants vigorous action and they have made me thet instrument of temporary humble instrument of...
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he was planning to go with ghandhi and the peace vision was big for him. the day hitler came to power, he was given a radio address. it was the only time he was on radio, and it was cut off in the middle. we who like romance say hitler's people turned it off. you could see in the years after world war i and how germany is shipping up to giving total obedience to a furyk. some of the people in the lutheran churches played up to hiterer. they tried to make hitler's germany into a force. the vast majority were silent. he got committed very early and hung out with a whole underground of people. i think the other thing that i would say is the turning point is they knew today we call it the movement and in the 1930s it was being born. they wanted to form what became the world council of churches. it was postponed until after the war because of the war, but he was an early agent of it, and that's one of the things that served this cause. he got to conferences in switzerland and sweden, england, the arch bishop who was over in'den was his -- eden was his contact p
he was planning to go with ghandhi and the peace vision was big for him. the day hitler came to power, he was given a radio address. it was the only time he was on radio, and it was cut off in the middle. we who like romance say hitler's people turned it off. you could see in the years after world war i and how germany is shipping up to giving total obedience to a furyk. some of the people in the lutheran churches played up to hiterer. they tried to make hitler's germany into a force. the vast...
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i think being a islam is a big part of who he is and a big part of what makes him challenging for everyone. but i also noticed that malcolm x becomes more and more alienated as he goes along because he challenges life and politics oh, yeah you did great. he keeps challenging and growing. he goes to another one and he becomes muslim and becomes separate around the people around him and going to a country and suddenly becoming different around the people around him. he has a life of increased alienation in a way it would strange he was killed by african-americans just like danni was killed by hindus. >> a quick question in response to all of this. is it just you left. well, then get up there. there's a whole line and you're sitting there all by yourself. >> i'm a student at the university. my question is because, you know, there's been a discussion briefly about black nationalism and i guess my question is is it possible to have a formulation of black nationalism that addresses some of the policing that goes on in what dr. dyson gave the fascist elements of secular black thinking. is it poss
i think being a islam is a big part of who he is and a big part of what makes him challenging for everyone. but i also noticed that malcolm x becomes more and more alienated as he goes along because he challenges life and politics oh, yeah you did great. he keeps challenging and growing. he goes to another one and he becomes muslim and becomes separate around the people around him and going to a country and suddenly becoming different around the people around him. he has a life of increased...
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is wrong with big corporations. so we're going to get into all that. but on the surface, the narrative of conservatives is actually very good. you read atlas shrugged and sometimes you think you're reading from today's headlines. one of the most memorable villains is a fellow named wesley milch. if you've seen the recent new fee, they chose to pronounce his name. i just don't get it. when i read atlas shrugged two ways mooch. we have our own real-world wesley milch. his name is barney frank. now, i don't normally use notes and i apologize for leaving these notes around, but i have them because they want to make exact quotations without error. you might remember one of the refrains is every time he wesley milch did some ridiculous thing and the economy even worse, he and his cronies have made in washington and david say, we need broader powers. we know government is the only enterprise makes the mistake bigger. let me quote her in a frank. after the collapse of the housing industry, a collapse any other engineered fr
is wrong with big corporations. so we're going to get into all that. but on the surface, the narrative of conservatives is actually very good. you read atlas shrugged and sometimes you think you're reading from today's headlines. one of the most memorable villains is a fellow named wesley milch. if you've seen the recent new fee, they chose to pronounce his name. i just don't get it. when i read atlas shrugged two ways mooch. we have our own real-world wesley milch. his name is barney frank....
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[laughter] so i think it was a big mistake. and i think the more traditional way of doing things has been to avoid going beyond a limit in confrontation with the united states. and in that sense it's been wise. i don't think, though, that what i refer to in the book is really confrontation with third parties though i get brought into the confrontation with the united states in other forms. >> norm, and then we had a question right here. >> thank thank you. norman bailey. and thank you, jorge, i look forward with the greatest pleasure to reading the book. i'm going to disagree with something you said in response to a question, and then i'm going to ask a question. um, you said that if truck carrying the illegal immigrants is intercepted, they lose the truck, the immigrants and the money. they don't lose the money, the money's already been paid, and it's in mexico, okay? [laughter] and they don't give a damn about losing the truck and the people. that's totally immaterial. >> but then we agree it's good business. >> yes. [laughte
[laughter] so i think it was a big mistake. and i think the more traditional way of doing things has been to avoid going beyond a limit in confrontation with the united states. and in that sense it's been wise. i don't think, though, that what i refer to in the book is really confrontation with third parties though i get brought into the confrontation with the united states in other forms. >> norm, and then we had a question right here. >> thank thank you. norman bailey. and thank...
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>> um, dodd-frank, in my view, really missed, whiffed the big one which is too big to fail, did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, to a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that is the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing, i think, is that it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulators, and so, therefore, providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry. so they got their first chance when they were talking about the legislation, writing the legislation, they got their first chance to manipulate. now they can manipulate the regulators, two bites of the apple. >> is it any better than nothing? >> i think there are parts of it that are fine, that are good. but i think that a 3,000-page law, okay? glass-steagall was 32 pages. 3,000 pages is, you know, it's way overdone and not, um, not effective on the crucial issue of too big to fail. >> yeah. not to, not to take much longer on that, i think i agree with gretchen. you know, why couldn't you have just added one paragraph that, essentially, said any institution that has to rely
>> um, dodd-frank, in my view, really missed, whiffed the big one which is too big to fail, did nothing about cutting down these institutions to a manageable size, to a size that does not imperil the taxpayer. that is the key failing in dodd-frank. another failing, i think, is that it has left hundreds of rules to be made by regulators, and so, therefore, providing a second manipulation possibility for the industry. so they got their first chance when they were talking about the...
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labor was a very big thing. the whole city of charleston was being organized by the knights of labor which was a labor organization that was active all around the country. and they said we're in touch with laborers in charleston. they're the ones who are injured and whose houses have been damaged. let us help you. and the city told them, we don't need your help either. we can take care of it ourselves. and they put the word out around the country, we know what's going on, we can take charge of it. send the money to us, and we will take care of it for you. >> so there was actually going to be -- that was actually going to be my next question. when they were divvying out, it's already, like you said, a racially charged environment. when it came down to, um, giving out the provisions, my assumption is it didn't happen equally, yet 60% of the population, like you said, was black. how did -- i'm sure that didn't help the situation. >> there was a lot of wrangling over what made people worthy of aid. and they went to
labor was a very big thing. the whole city of charleston was being organized by the knights of labor which was a labor organization that was active all around the country. and they said we're in touch with laborers in charleston. they're the ones who are injured and whose houses have been damaged. let us help you. and the city told them, we don't need your help either. we can take care of it ourselves. and they put the word out around the country, we know what's going on, we can take charge of...